Trump urges Canadians vote for MAGA candidate and back 51st state idea (2025)

Without naming the candidate, President Donald Trump urged Canadians to cast their ballot in Monday's election for the one who supports his agenda the most.

Canada's election for next Prime Minister is also a referendum on the U.S. president after he launched a trade war with the northern neighbors and repeatedly proposed making Canada the 51st state.

Both the liberal and conservative party front runners have said they do not align with Trump's ideas to absorb Canada.

But that didn't stop Trump from backing Canada's Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre – without directly naming the potential future Prime Minister.

'Good luck to the Great people of Canada,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Monday as polls opened in Eastern Canada.

'Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America,' he continued.

Voters in Canada are deciding whether to grant interim Prime Minister Mark Carney a full four-year mandate after he took over in March when Justin Trudeau resigned amid floundering approval ratings and polls suggesting he would lose his party reelection.

Canadians could give the Conservative Party a turn at the wheel after more than nine years of Liberal Party government.

Even before retaking residence at the White House earlier this year, Trump was proposing that Canada became a state and threatened high tariffs on the northern neighbors due to what he claims is a disadvantageous trade relationship.

'No more artificially drawn line from many years ago,' Trump wrote in his Monday morning post. 'Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!'

'America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!'

Like the U.S., Canada has been dealing with a cost-of-living crisis. More than 75 percent of its exports go to the U.S., meaning Trump's threat to impose sweeping tariffs could severely damage the Canadian economy.

Poilievre most directly aligns with the MAGA platform, but while slamming Trump's tariff proposal in February, the conservative candidate told his supporters that Canada would 'never' be America's 51st state.

In early voting, more than 7 million Canadians already cast their ballots in the Prime Minister's race. In-person voting opened on Monday at 7:00 a.m.

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